More from AHAM on the Truth of the World

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Dear Friends,

 

Another apposite posting from AHAM on our thread on The Unreality of the World

 

 

--- On Thu, 18/9/08, AHAM - Association of Happiness for All Mankind

<ahamcntr wrote:

 

> AHAM - Association of Happiness for All Mankind <ahamcntr

> Daily Message for Transforming the Mind #2308

> " Alan Jacobs " <alanadamsjacobs

> Thursday, 18 September, 2008, 9:11 PM

> Dear Alan Jacobs,

>

> This is Message #2308 for transforming the mind and

> realizing the true

> nature of the Self, or real God, based on the Teachings of

> Bhagavan Sri

> Ramana Maharshi. Please forward it to an interested or

> discerning friend:

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>

> Section 1. The Truth About the World

>

> Verse 10. If the individual soul and the world be taken as

> real, then how

> can the Supreme Being be infinite (as He is declared to be

> by Revelation)?

> Unless His infiniteness be given up, how can this

> contention (that the soul

> and the world are real) be right?(2)

>

> (2) In the previous sentence an objection sought to be

> sustained by

> portions of Revelation was disposed of; here it is shown

> that a fundamental

> teaching of Revelation itself is irreconcilable with it;

> the Reality is

> declared to be all that is, that is to say, infinite; this

> is explained

> away by the theologians; but it is considered to be

> fundamental by the

> believers called Advaitins; to this teaching all else is

> subordinate; their

> interpretation is here declared to be the right one.

>

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> These quotations are from the book,

> Guru--Ramana--Vachana--Mala by " Who, "

> published by Sri Ramanasramam.